Man kills sister

Published April 18, 2008

TAXILA, April 17: A man killed his sister over a domestic dispute in the limits of Wah Cantt police station.

Mohammad Khurshid in a complaint with the police alleged that his son, Sarfaraz Ahmad killed his sister, Shazia Rasheed. He said that Ahmad shot Shazia dead for misbehaving with mother over a domestic dispute.

While in another incident, a young man was critically injured when he fell from a moving Rawalpindi-bound passenger train near Burhan railway station in the jurisdiction of Hassanabdal police station.

Railway authorities said that Sohail Khan was shifted to THQ hospital and then taken to DHQ hospital Rawalpindi as his situation was critical.—Correspondent

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